Martial Arts in the Media: Physical Zen
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Toxic Zen Story #10.8: Physical Zen: Evil Friends in the Media: Lee – Seagal, Norris; Chan – Chow, Li; Carradine – Norris, Hung; Henstridge et al – Garner, Wong; Kurosawa – Lee, many others. We also have: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Kung fu against the undead. "Star Wars 1-6" Bushido and Kung Fu in space. "Lord of the Rings" This was great until the elf started doing Kung Fu, and Bushido moves. Damn it !!! "Charlie’s Angels" Light on the Zen in the first movie, now they are totally slow-mo Kung Fu in the second movie. "Matrix","Matrix Reloaded", "Matrix Revolutions I & 2" Wo, these are purely Zen evil with unreal slow-mo Kung Fu. "Lara Croft – Tomb Raider" Now (II), these are Kung Fu. "Underworld" Kung Fu with vampires and wolves. "The Rundown" The Rock goes Zen. Duane !!! "Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2" Good Heavens, this is like taking a bath in the purest evil and distortion of life. Must absolutely every damn movie and TV show with action scenes have a unit director that is a Zen Roshi or has his own school of Kung Fu or Karate? Doesn’t anyone see this as a problem: as a prerequisite for working in action movies, or starring in one? It’s like every movie made in Hollywood for the Summer of 2003, was either a Kung Fu flick, or was made by people sharing Zen directly (Lost In Translation), or doing Zen meditation every night after wrapping the set (Mystic River). Zen is really burning hot in Hollywood. We really should stop subsidizing that evil. Zen is the snake that bites it’s own tail. If you embrace the void and acausality, you will find yourself later in the midst of catastrophic emptiness saying "how’d that happen?". Under Prajnatara (Perfect Wisdom Shining Star) of India, there was a disciple named Bodhidharma (Buddha Law). Under these grandiose names, they studied the Buddha’s teachings, after Buddhism had traveled East to China. The Buddha foretold that Buddhism would fall into a Hellish path in India, after the Buddha’s highest teachings had moved on. Bodhidharma was a native of Conjeeveram, near Madras in India. He traveled from India and arrived at Ching-Ling (now Nanking), or perhaps at Guangzhou (Canton), perhaps both. There, Bodhidharma met with the Emperor’s emissary (some say Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, see footnote), where they discussed the Sutras. As Bodhidharma (also called Da Mo, or Ta Mo in China, and Daruma in Japan) believed in dhyana or meditation upon the nothingness at the heart of life, and as the Lotus Sutra had been translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva who traveled from India a century earlier and had served the Liang Dynasty well, the lesser and distorted teaching of dhyana/ch’an/zen was rejected by practitioners of the highest teaching, and Bodhidharma was banished from Imperial territory. As an icchantika, or incorrigible disbeliever in the Lotus Sutra, he could not be allowed to spread his teachings in the Emperor’s domain (they wished to live happily, you see). But by banishing him, they did not act as bodhisattvas, to thoroughly correct his errors and not let him slip away to corrupt others, and thusly fall into the hell of incessant sufferings (Aviichi Hell) for countless lifetimes. Out of this single uncompassionate act, much of the suffering of the world has come. After he was banished, Bodhidharma went to the Shaolin Monastery at Loyang, West of Kaifeng in the Henan (Honan) Province of Western China, where the Huang He (Yangtze or Yellow River) tumbles out of the break between Zhongtiao Shan (2367m) on the North and Quanbao Shan (2094m) on the South, to flood the rest of China. At the Shaolin Monastery, he widely disseminated his distorted views of Buddhism, corrupting first the Shaolin Monks and ultimately the rest of the world. Bodhidharma’s school was known as Dhyana (from the Mahayana source), or as Ch’an in China, and eventually as Zen in Japan. It comes to flower in many different forms, in many different places down through the ages. Bodhidharma’s very existence is denied by the Zen community, rendering the life of their founder as itself a void. This allows no one to be responsible, and the Zen community to walk away from the train wreck. So let’s assume that the history is true, and hold Bodhidharma and Zen accountable, just this once. There was surely a founder who brought Dhyana from India, however many names he is called. Footnotes on Wu-Ti: Concerning Emperor Wu: from "The Selection of the Time – Nichiren, disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, p. 544: ‘Those concerned about their next life would do better to be common people in this, the Latter Day of the Law, than be mighty rulers during the two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days of the Law. Why won’t people believe this? Rather than be the chief priest of the Tendai school, it is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myoho- renge-kyo! As Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty said in his vow, "I would rather be Devadatta and sink into the hell of incessant suffering than be the non-Buddhist sage Udraka Ramaputra."’ This reference is to a document in which Emperor Wu (464–549), the first ruler of the Liang dynasty, pledged not to follow the way of Taoism. It actually says that he would rather sink into the evil paths for a long period of time for going against Buddhism (yet nevertheless forming a bond with it) than be reborn in heaven by embracing the non-Buddhist teachings. This story appears in The Annotations on "Great Concentration and Insight." Udraka Ramaputra was a hermit and master of yogic meditation, the second teacher under whom Shakyamuni practiced. He is said to have been reborn in the highest of the four realms in the world of formlessness. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: Wu-Ti: Born 464 , China. Died 549 , China Pinyin Wudi (posthumous name, or shih), personal name (hsing-ming) Hsiao Yen , temple name (miao- hao) (nan-liang) Kao-tsu founder and first emperor of the Southern Liang dynasty (502-557), which briefly held sway over South China. A great patron of Buddhism , he helped establish that religion in the south of China. Wu-ti was a relative of the emperor of the Southern Ch’i dynasty (479-502), one of the numerous dynasties that existed in South China in the turbulent period between the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and T’ang (618-907) dynasties. He led a successful revolt against the Southern Ch’i after his elder brother was put to death by the emperor. He proclaimed himself first emperor of the Liang dynasty in 502, and his reign proved to be longer and more stable than that of any other southern emperor in this period. A devout believer, Wu-ti diligently promoted Buddhism, preparing the first Chinese Tripitaka, or collection of all Buddhist scripts. In 527 and again in 529 he renounced the world and entered a monastery. He was persuaded to reassume office only with great difficulty. In 549 the capital was captured by a "barbarian" general, and Wu-ti died of starvation in a monastery. There is a hierarchy of Zen, in power and toxicity. The lesser forms of Zen pave the way in societies and cultures for the more powerful forms. Once a society or culture is corrupted, in even the tiniest way, by any form of Zen, the tendency will be to move inevitably towards greater corruption by the more powerful and toxic variants. In this way, Zen undermines everything that can be undermined in the world, leaving only that which is incorruptible (the correct practice of the Lotus Sutra). The hierarchy of Zen is as follows, in general terms: Physical Zen: All of the martial arts are based on Zen, starting with Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Karate, Aikido, JiuJitsu, Judo, Kendo, Bushido, Ninjitsu, etc. Tai Chi came from Shaolin Qigong, which also led to Acupuncture, Acupressure and Falun Gong. As the chaos in society grows, people need to feel they can protect themselves and their loved ones, and in this way they are corrupted further. Christian Zen, Jewish Zen, Hindu Zen, Islamic Zen: These are basically mixtures, wherein the monotheist believer in a deity, feels they can practice Zen meditation without a problem, since it is not theistic. While this reasoning is true, it ignores the absolutely overwhelming corruption produced by Zen, which will ultimately undermine their belief system and every facet of their life, by bringing all of the negatives in the Zen adherent’s’s daily life and environment to the forefront, with increasing amplification and psychotic effect. Nuremberg Zen: The widespread belief by a population, that the purpose of the Buddha’s advent in the world was to teach Zen: that Zen is Buddhism. This is, of course, an absolutely distorted view of the Buddha’s life and teachings. Shakyamuni made it transparently clear, at the very end of his life in the Nirvana
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Toxic Zen Story #10.8: Physical Zen: Evil Friends in the Media: Lee – Seagal, Norris; Chan – Chow, Li; Carradine – Norris, Hung; Henstridge et al – Garner, Wong; Kurosawa – Lee, many others. We also have: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Kung fu against the undead. "Star Wars 1-6" Bushido and Kung Fu in space. "Lord of the Rings" This was great until the elf started doing Kung Fu, and Bushido moves. Damn it !!! "Charlie’s Angels" Light on the Zen in the first movie, now they are totally slow-mo Kung Fu in the second movie. "Matrix","Matrix Reloaded", "Matrix Revolutions I & 2" Wo, these are purely Zen evil with unreal slow-mo Kung Fu. "Lara Croft – Tomb Raider" Now (II), these are Kung Fu. "Underworld" Kung Fu with vampires and wolves. "The Rundown" The Rock goes Zen. Duane !!! "Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2" Good Heavens, this is like taking a bath in the purest evil and distortion of life. Must absolutely every damn movie and TV show with action scenes have a unit director that is a Zen Roshi or has his own school of Kung Fu or Karate? Doesn’t anyone see this as a problem: as a prerequisite for working in action movies, or starring in one? It’s like every movie made in Hollywood for the Summer of 2003, was either a Kung Fu flick, or was made by people sharing Zen directly (Lost In Translation), or doing Zen meditation every night after wrapping the set (Mystic River). Zen is really burning hot in Hollywood. We really should stop subsidizing that evil. Zen is the snake that bites it’s own tail. If you embrace the void and acausality, you will find yourself later in the midst of catastrophic emptiness saying "how’d that happen?". Under Prajnatara (Perfect Wisdom Shining Star) of India, there was a disciple named Bodhidharma (Buddha Law). Under these grandiose names, they studied the Buddha’s teachings, after Buddhism had traveled East to China. The Buddha foretold that Buddhism would fall into a Hellish path in India, after the Buddha’s highest teachings had moved on. Bodhidharma was a native of Conjeeveram, near Madras in India. He traveled from India and arrived at Ching-Ling (now Nanking), or perhaps at Guangzhou (Canton), perhaps both. There, Bodhidharma met with the Emperor’s emissary (some say Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, see footnote), where they discussed the Sutras. As Bodhidharma (also called Da Mo, or Ta Mo in China, and Daruma in Japan) believed in dhyana or meditation upon the nothingness at the heart of life, and as the Lotus Sutra had been translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva who traveled from India a century earlier and had served the Liang Dynasty well, the lesser and distorted teaching of dhyana/ch’an/zen was rejected by practitioners of the highest teaching, and Bodhidharma was banished from Imperial territory. As an icchantika, or incorrigible disbeliever in the Lotus Sutra, he could not be allowed to spread his teachings in the Emperor’s domain (they wished to live happily, you see). But by banishing him, they did not act as bodhisattvas, to thoroughly correct his errors and not let him slip away to corrupt others, and thusly fall into the hell of incessant sufferings (Aviichi Hell) for countless lifetimes. Out of this single uncompassionate act, much of the suffering of the world has come. After he was banished, Bodhidharma went to the Shaolin Monastery at Loyang, West of Kaifeng in the Henan (Honan) Province of Western China, where the Huang He (Yangtze or Yellow River) tumbles out of the break between Zhongtiao Shan (2367m) on the North and Quanbao Shan (2094m) on the South, to flood the rest of China. At the Shaolin Monastery, he widely disseminated his distorted views of Buddhism, corrupting first the Shaolin Monks and ultimately the rest of the world. Bodhidharma’s school was known as Dhyana (from the Mahayana source), or as Ch’an in China, and eventually as Zen in Japan. It comes to flower in many different forms, in many different places down through the ages. Bodhidharma’s very existence is denied by the Zen community, rendering the life of their founder as itself a void. This allows no one to be responsible, and the Zen community to walk away from the train wreck. So let’s assume that the history is true, and hold Bodhidharma and Zen accountable, just this once. There was surely a founder who brought Dhyana from India, however many names he is called. Footnotes on Wu-Ti: Concerning Emperor Wu: from "The Selection of the Time – Nichiren, disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, p. 544: ‘Those concerned about their next life would do better to be common people in this, the Latter Day of the Law, than be mighty rulers during the two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days of the Law. Why won’t people believe this? Rather than be the chief priest of the Tendai school, it is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myoho- renge-kyo! As Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty said in his vow, "I would rather be Devadatta and sink into the hell of incessant suffering than be the non-Buddhist sage Udraka Ramaputra."’ This reference is to a document in which Emperor Wu (464–549), the first ruler of the Liang dynasty, pledged not to follow the way of Taoism. It actually says that he would rather sink into the evil paths for a long period of time for going against Buddhism (yet nevertheless forming a bond with it) than be reborn in heaven by embracing the non-Buddhist teachings. This story appears in The Annotations on "Great Concentration and Insight." Udraka Ramaputra was a hermit and master of yogic meditation, the second teacher under whom Shakyamuni practiced. He is said to have been reborn in the highest of the four realms in the world of formlessness. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: Wu-Ti: Born 464 , China. Died 549 , China Pinyin Wudi (posthumous name, or shih), personal name (hsing-ming) Hsiao Yen , temple name (miao- hao) (nan-liang) Kao-tsu founder and first emperor of the Southern Liang dynasty (502
